University Challenge comes to Challoner's

6th May 2010

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To be the winners of the Year 13 Inter-Div University Challenge was a
highly sought-after prize. A contest of pride, a competition of
superiority, a chance of eternal glory; the University Challenge event
that took place last week saw all these superlatives for the competition
being fashioned, and it all came down to which year thirteen division
could produce the best team possible.

Questions had been set by the students and the ‘Paxman’ seat was
superbly filled over the four days by Yaroslav Walker and Tom Tryon. The
competition certainly threw up gruelling questions such as; name the
Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty or what type of disorders
does an endocrinologist treat, showing the breadth of knowledge the
contestants needed to have to succeed in each round.

After hard fought quarter and semi finals, it came down to a final
between the biology and electronics divs. However, this is where it
turned into the Ram Sarujan show! The prospective Cambridge maths
student showed an impressive extent of general knowledge which meant the
electronics div became worthy champions with a massive score of 170 and
were presented with the Millins Cup to mark their achievement.